Puzzle.



' S. S. JOY.

PUZZLE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 9, 1911.

Patented Jan. 14, 1913.

. of the United States, residin at an: s. JOY, or new manna, NEW nmsmn.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 14, 1918.

Application Med December 9, 1911. Serial Io. 884,758.

To all whom it mayconcem:

Be it known that LSAM S. Jor a citizen llew Market, in the county of Rocking am and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Puzzle, of which the following is a Specification.

The object of my invention 1s the production, of an interesting, intricate and inexpensive puzzle, which will provide entertainment for both adult and child, and wherein the solution of the uzzle depends upon the proper alinement of the several arts both in the assembling and disassemb ing. While this is the main object, I have also in view an ornamental device, which may be manufactured and put upon the market at low cost.

With these objects in view, I have devised the novel puzzle, which is hereinafter more particularly described, and its use and solutions unfolded; shown in the drawings and covered b the claims.

In the rawings, wherein similar letters of 'referenceindicate corresponding parts in the several views: Figure 1. is a perspective view with the several parts in the positions maintained at the instant of solution of assembling. Fig. 2. is a similar view showing the several arts in positions they may assume after the solution of assembling. Fig. 3. is a view illustrat-in one method of assembling the puzzle. ig. 4. is a view illustrating a second method of assembling by building up the puzzle from the ball and innermost disk members outwardly.

The intricacy of the puzzle may be increased by numbering the several disk members in consecutive order, as for instance bein with No. 1. a lied to the outer disk li ie ihbg of one disk f i mation, and numbering inwardlfi and so on or inversely, beginning with o. 1'. applied to the all and numbering outwardly. If the latter course be adopted the outer disk member will be No. 4.; the inner disk member of second formation No. 5 and the outer one No. 7

In the drawings A is one disk formation composed of the inner disk member a, the middle disk-member b and the outer disk member 0 and pursuing the same method with the other disk-formation B, the diskmembers are lettered from d to f inclusive.

The ball 9 is of a size to fit within the com lement-ary hemispherical recesses g in the disks a and d. k the aperture in one disk formation, formed by the alinement of the apertures in its several disk members, a the aperture in the second diskformation formed in like manner, j is a hole in the periphery of one of the disk-formations, whereby the assembled puzzle may be mounted upon the standard 1 which is at its lower end inserted in the base a similar hole in like position in the periphery of the other disk-formation is provided for the insertion of any ornamental device, like the acorn-n shown in the drawings.

m, m, are projections in the sides of each of the outer ring members, opposite the aperture, to hold the disk formations in their right angular relation when assembled.

For trade urposes, it is proposed to name the puzzle fter the Ball, the ball 9 being releasable from the assembled device, only in the manner shown in the hereinafter described disassembling solution of the puzzle.

The solution of the puzzle inassembling the various parts, as shown in Fig. 1, so thatbled position illustrated in Fig. 1, when the interlocked ring-members a and d, and b and e, are rotatable within the outer ring-members c and f, and the ball 9 rota-table within a and (Z; and second by assembling the parts piece by iece in the following manner: Holding either of the smallest ring-members a or a, insert the ball g in the central aperture, holding the other corresponding ringmember in the other hand, at right angles with the first, with the radial apertures facing each other in the position shown in Fig. 3, partially interlock the two ring-members substantially in the position shown in Fig. 4, next place one of the next larger ring members 1n the position of bin its. relation to ring d as in Fig. 4:, and proceed in like manner with the ring-member 6, so that the relative positions of the ball 9, and the four ring-members c and f, and the two completed disk-members may be fully interlocked, as shown in Fig. 1, and the inner disks become rotatable, as in the first process.

In the solution of disassembling the puzzle and removing the ball, the only requisite is that the ring-members of the two disk-formations be arranged in the right angular relations shown in Fig. 1, with the interlocking apertures of each disk continuous, and the apertures of both disks also continuous, or in the same posit-ion they would assume were the two disks illustrated in Fig. 3 connected, with their peripheries intersecting. It is. apparent that in this position, the two disk-members are slidably separable to the positions shown in Fig. 3, and their ringmembers and the ball are also separable.

Vhile I have preferred to manufacture the models of my puzzle of Wood, it will be understood that the entire puzzle may be composed of metal or other material; and made of any adaptable material, the device may be employed as a watch-charm, the head of a stick-pin and in numerous other ways for ornamentation and use. Further, while I have preferred to illustrate my invention-with each disk formation composed of three disk members, the smallest interfitting the middle disk, and the middle interfitting the outer, I may use any larger number of disk members, and still be within the spirit and intent of my invention. I have at the present time preferred to adopt this number, because of the increasing difliculty entertainment of both adults and children.

Having fully described my invention, I claim .1. A puzzle composed of two interlocked, thin disk-like members, extending at right angles to each other, said disks bein formed of a plurality of interfitting ring-1i e members, each of which has a radial aperture therein, said apertures being adapted to both continuous and non-continuous arrangement, and the several interlocked inner ring-members rotatable in all directions Within their respective interlocked outer ring-members; and a ball held in position and rotatable in the central aperture of said interlocked disk-members.

2. The combination of a pair of flat disks each formed of a plurality of circular sections and each section having a radial opening adapted to aline with the opening in a complementary disk section to form a con tinuous slot, while the inner section is formed with a recess in whichthe opening terminates, whereby a ball may be inclosed in the recess when the disks are fitted together as described.

. SAM S. JOY.

Witnesses ARTHUR L. 'IURRo'r'rE,

G110. F. J or. 

